Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23
And, Impressed with the Enter
prise Exhibited
BY Live Kansas People, Many Of
Them Seek no Further
Phonetic Penciling Of Pictur-
esque Prairies.
From the Sterling Bulletin.

1t is said that Kansas is the best adyer-
tised state in the Union. This is proba-
bly, SO, and it is certain that it is we'll adj
vertised in the Union. Of you don't see
the point in our little joke, take off your
coat and try AGAIN. We are advertising
it again this week. But it greatly de-
serves it, and is most benevolent enter
prise to do it. Don't you see, if one
third of what the advertisements say is
true, the people of the world ought to
know it. They ought to have a chance
to come and see for themselves what all
this bother is about. and if they come we
know they will stay, or at least wish they
they leave some of their money in corner
lots or corn fields, and when they get
back they send their boys and girls, cous-
ms. aunts, unclcs and nephews to come
and look after them and buy more for
themselves. Isn't it just marvellous how
they are coming? Some of them leave
home, New England or old England, Bal
timore or Berlin, Ohio or Odessa, on the
pretense of seeing the mOuntains-the
high Rockies-or CALIFORNIA;, but they stop
off in Kansas to investigate the BOOM
And they do investigate, all of them, with
results above named. And why shouldn't
they stop here 4?
There is as much land here to the square
mile as anywhere, and there's S1,21S of
them. There is air here as fresh as any
in the world, just flecked little with
smoke from five thousand miles of Eail-
way and sundry cities of forty or fifty
thousand inhabitants and in some coal
mining districts and coke ovens and link
works and lead furnaces. There are glo-
rious uplands here, gently rolling high
prairies Stretching out like the billowy
sea, There are valleys here SO fertile that
the truthful story of their furtility sounds
like fable to inhabitants of the sunrise
state. Mountains there are none, but
hills rounded and mound like, level pla-
taeus, carved by old Aqua out of solid
earth with ribs of rock and bands of col
or glorious as the gates of heaven. There
are rivers whose serpentine wanderings
were but family typefied by old Meander.
There are springs gushing from the rocks
as though Moses had smitten the lime
stone There are orchards where the pip
pins rival the fruit of Hesperides and the
clusters of grapes are such as JOseph's
friend, the butler, would have pressed in
the cup of Pharoah. There are dells where
the plums rival the apricot, gardens where
asparagus and cabbage beats those of
Holland, and plantations where cotton
grows like in the famous sea islands Per
haps you like scenery. We have said that
there are no mountains, but if woody
dingles, rocky dells, strong rivers make
sceneries, you have those in Kansas. Nay,
more: We have crowded regions where
the sandstone is in masses of standing
rocks, pulpits, pinnacles, towers and caps.
Then when wheat is ripe in the golden
belt-three fourth of the state, where do
you look for more gorgeous sight?-and
the corn-the maize, then tall and rich
dark green-streamers waving in the most
JOYOUS breezes that blow from heaven-a
million acres of it more or less, tell of
coming plenty for both man and beast.
o, yes We shall keep ON advertising
Kansas the people ought to know about
it, We want just two million more of
them from the east, and we will breed the
rest-of a higher, grander, improved type
of man-the rest of the ten million with
which the state will be peopled in the year
of our Lord, 1900.